A few things:
1. 7h is an awful, convoluted, badly designed, gimmicky solution that tries to be an all size fits gauntlet. Even installing the cretinous thing is a chore. I hated it from the start, but hoped it would get better. When I realized it wouldn't, I decided to make my own solution.
2. You've caught me on a very bad day.
3. I didn't like the fact you or someone else decided to add Reunion without my permission to that pile of turd to begin with - but, that aside, the biggest problem is that an old, crap version of Reunion is out there and I can't stop it being installed and used when my intention was for it to die.
4. The co-existing is my decision. R06 will check for 7h and will refuse to load when it's detected. Disabling R06 is VERY easy. It's an option at the top of the Options.ini file. So, if people want to disable it and use 7h, they can at any time.
5. Until your response, I was willing to work with you to come to some sort of compromise. That's gone now. My aim is to kill 7h off.
6. It's nothing to do with "taking control" It's the following:
a. 7h causes confusion and problems and I get bug reports because of 7h. Nightmare.
b. It takes MY control of MY mod away from me. The same way it takes away control of any modder's mod.
c. People start to believe 7h IS the mod. That the work was done by 7h team.
d. My solution gives control to the modder and to the end user in a more or less painless way.
1. Yeah, I know. For years, you've scattered posts throughout this forum stating your distaste for 7H. It wasn't hard to figure that out.
2. What is the point of saying this? Is it your way of apologizing ahead of time for the rude comments you're saying? You've always spoken out this way towards other people, so I'm not buying it as justification for what you say. You have A LOT of bad days with people on these forums. It's who you are, or at the very least, who you're known to be.
3. The whole point of 7H was to move Bootleg forward in a new way. Bootleg had Reunion, but I don't remember the issues from you then. Public mods are meant for the public, especially when where you host it is built on the idea that we're a modding COMMUNITY that shares its work with each other. Bootleg was a tool to bring all the mods together for the user to pick what they want. 7H is no different in that regard.
Your "biggest problem" is not a problem. I'm not buying it. Catalog 2.0 launched with the latest Reunion at that time, so it's intentions were never to cause you problems. You're treating it like modern day PC culture, where someone famous gains traction in something they're doing, only to be publicly destroyed by bringing up a topic that happened decades ago because it fits the new "destructive" narrative for modern day culture. It's irrelevant to what is happening now, and I assure you that the intentions of Reunion in 7H was, and still is, to simply promote the mods it hosts. Reunion wasn't even going to be in 3.0 because I wanted to work together with you to get it installed from your method, and then use 7H over top it for anything extra the user wanted. I realize it's a difficult task that might not be attainable, but you never gave it a chance when:
A) You crap all over 7H for years on this forum.
B) You tell me ONE time that you'd be willing to share R06 to see what we can do, only to go completely silent and never send me anything.
C) Approach me ONE time on Discord, only to derail the conversation with, "oh fuck it. I'm gonna go my separate way..."
4. Whatever you do with R06 is your decision.
5. I'm not buying it. You never showed any pattern of wanting to work together. Just 99% silence while I sat back and had to read your distasteful comments about 7H spread around this forum.
6.
a) Again, not buying it. Majority of Reunion related reports are either using the wrong .exe to run Menu Overhaul or wanting Beacause and New Thread to work together. MO is out in Catalog 3.0, so that's one issue resolved. Beacause and New Threat won't work until you both complete your mods and work together to combine them. That's on you guys, not 7H. Besides, NT gets automatically disabled if users choose the Beacause option, so users can't even make the mistake of trying if they wanted. Any other user reports in are client related due to stupid Windows 10 updates changing the way it calls to 7H. Also, there is an active group on Discord trying to resolve this with possibly a new client build, and I'm very open to their work. There are other small bugs and fixes needed, but nothing to worry over for a public release.
b) Nope. 7H was always a tool meant the same way as Bootleg...to host mods for promotion and easier access. It essentially got rid of aimlessly searching the Qhimm forums or ctrl+F the Big List of Mods. When a mod is added, it's put in as-is (with a few exceptions). If you think it's for taking control away from the modders, then you have a warped way of thinking that was developed by yourself. Nothing publicly says that its meant to take control away from the modders.
c) Says no one.
d) Yes, it gives more control in downloading and placing the mods manually. In a more or less painless way? It's not released to the public yet, so who knows.
All of THIS is just a headache that active modders shouldn't be talking about. It's not healthy. I don't want it. Which is why I'm still willing to swallow each others pride and compromise. But you have to step up and communicate more. And perhaps tone it down a little. It's not hard to tell people that things are a bit of a problem, but that you want to help fix the problems. Even if the problem means taking out Reunion completely from the 7H Catalog...just ask for that. Not once in the past did you ask for that, but your argument clearly shows you wanted it.
Well? What say you now...